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Indonesian investigator: Black box data to be excluded from Air Asia crash report

Workers prepare to load the tail section of Air Asia Airbus A320 flight QZ8501 onto a truck at port in Kumai on Jan 11. Indonesian divers found the crucial black box flight recorders of the AirAsia plane that crashed in the Java Sea.Photo: AFP

A preliminary report into last month's crash of an AirAsia passenger jet that killed 162 people will not include an analysis of the black box flight recorders.Photo: The Star

The preliminary report, which the ICAO requires within 30 days of the date of the accident, will include “information on the plane, the number of passengers and other information like that”, NTSC investigator Suryanto told Reuters.

It will not include analysis from the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, both of which were recovered by divers from the bottom of the Java Sea.

Data from radar and the aircraft’s two “black box” flight recorders is providing investigators with a clearer picture of what occurred during the final minutes of Flight QZ8501.

Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan told a parliamentary hearing last week that, based on radar data, the plane had climbed faster than normal in its final minutes - and then stalled.

The final report on the investigation, which will be made public, must be filed within a year.